Washington, March 02: Eating peanuts may lower your risk of dying from a heart attack, US and Chinese researchers said Monday. Researchers at Vanderbilt University and the ShanghaiCancer Institute examined the association of nut consumption with mortality among low-income and racially diverse populations and found that intake of peanuts was associated with fewer deaths, especially from heart disease. While research has previously linked nut consumption with lower mortality, those studies...

What is likely to become the nation's first offshore wind farm has closed on more than $290 million in financing, which will allow a five-turbine demo of the renewable energy system to be completed. The BlockIslandWindFarm is a 30-megawatt offshore wind farm that will be located about three miles...

View gallery. (Nacho Doce/Reuters) A rainbow is seen over a tract of Amazon rainforest which has been cleared by loggers and farmers for agriculture, near the city of Uruara, Brazil on April 22, 2013. The story of climate change is closely tied to that of the carbon cycle. The increasing amounts of...

Al Pessin LONDON— A newly published report indicates Iran and the United States have increased their cyber attacks on each other, even as their top diplomats are working toward an agreement to guarantee Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon and to free Iran from international sanctions. The...